A report presented by US environmental and economic leaders and
scientists urge President elect Barack Obama to end overfishing, and
thus help protect from extinction many fish species that are at the
verse of collapse. The report advised instituting a system known as
catch shares, where the total amount of fish allowed to be taken in a
given fishery is capped and fishermen are given a share of the fishery's
quota, as opposed to the conventional way of trying to limit the number
of fish taken, which is to shorten the length of the fishing season,
which prompts fishermen to get the absolute maximum during whatever time
they are permitted to fish.

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Although it would be a good measure to set quotas to stop overfishing,
the individual lives of fish are still not taken into account. These
God's creatures should have the same God-given right as any other
creature to live free of exploitation. Moreover, the slow, torturing
death that fish suffer when caught go against Christ's principles of
compassion, mercy and peace.